Hello,
I just heard today through a student government meeting that the AOA is planning on trying to recruit the ACGME to accredit already existing AOA residencies, therefore making some AOA programs dualy accredited. The reason: To try to keep DO students in AOA residencies by increasing the perceived quality by making them ACGME accredited as well.
To me, this seems like the exact opposite of what the AOA should actually do. They should be working on creating more AOA spots by creating new programs or offering accrediation to existing ACGME programs. Instead they are actually taking away positions from DO grads by opening them up to ACGME students when there already are not enough to go around.
Any thoughts??
MSU-DO 2005
I just heard today through a student government meeting that the AOA is planning on trying to recruit the ACGME to accredit already existing AOA residencies, therefore making some AOA programs dualy accredited. The reason: To try to keep DO students in AOA residencies by increasing the perceived quality by making them ACGME accredited as well.
To me, this seems like the exact opposite of what the AOA should actually do. They should be working on creating more AOA spots by creating new programs or offering accrediation to existing ACGME programs. Instead they are actually taking away positions from DO grads by opening them up to ACGME students when there already are not enough to go around.
Any thoughts??
MSU-DO 2005